When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament

When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament

$22.00 USD
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When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament
  • When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament
  • When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament
  • When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament
  • When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament
  • When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament
When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament

When Pigs Fly Felted Wool Ornament

$22.00 USD

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  • 100% New Zealand Wool

    Open pasture, naturally soft, cleanly spun, and extraordinarily resilient.

  • Individually Hand-Sculpted

    Wet-felted and needle-detailed so no two pieces are identical.

  • Naturally Fresh & Durable

    Breathable, odor-resistant, and easy to spot clean.

Description

A felted pig in cream wings, hanging nose-down in a dive.

The cord comes out between his shoulder blades rather than off the top of his head, which tips him forward on the string. He does not hang level like most ornaments — he hangs at an angle, committed, going somewhere. That one decision is what turns a pig with wings into a pig that is flying.

His legs hang straight down underneath him, not tucked. Nothing about him is aerodynamic and he is not pretending otherwise.

The wings are long and swept back from the shoulder, worked flat in undyed cream against the pink so they read instantly against the body.

His tail is a true corkscrew — yarn wound into a tight three-dimensional helix that stands out from his rump, rather than a flat curl felted against it.

Two pinks do the work: a soft dusty rose over the body and ears, and a hot magenta for the snout and the trotters. The snout is a proper disc with two nostrils pushed into it, and because it is the brightest thing on him, your eye goes there first.

On a plaited jute cord.

Made from New Zealand wool.

Please note: small parts. Not suitable for children under three.

Materials
  • New Zealand wool, felted.
  • Dyed dusty rose and magenta, with undyed cream wings.
  • Wound yarn corkscrew tail.
  • Black bead eyes.
  • Plaited jute hanging cord.
Dimensions
Craft
  1. The hanging point is the whole design, and almost nobody gets it right.
  2. The cord comes out between his shoulder blades rather than off the top of his head. That shifts the balance forward, so he tips nose-down on the string and hangs at an angle instead of swinging level the way an ornament hung from the crown always does.
  3. It is the difference between a pig with wings attached and a pig that is flying. Hung level, he is an object. Hung in a dive, he is going somewhere, and the whole joke lands.
  4. The legs are the other half of that. They hang straight down underneath him rather than being tucked back against the body. A real flying animal folds its legs away; this one has not thought of it. Nothing about him is aerodynamic and the piece is not pretending otherwise — the comedy is in the effort, not in the competence.
  5. The wings are long, swept back from the shoulder, and worked in undyed cream against the dyed pink. That contrast is deliberatewings in a matching pink would have merged into the body at a distance and left a blurred shape. In cream they separate instantly, which matters on an ornament that will be seen across a room.
  6. The tail is a true corkscrew. Yarn is wound into a tight three-dimensional helix that stands out from the rump and holds a gap between each turn. Most felted pigs get a flat curl felted against the body, which reads as a mark rather than a tail. This one you could thread a pin through.
  7. The colour is run as two pinks rather than onea soft dusty rose across the body and ears, and a hot magenta reserved for the snout and the trotters. Putting the saturated colour only on the extremities is what makes the snout the first thing you look at, and a pig is a snout before it is anything else.
  8. That snout is also built as a proper disc — a flat round face on the end of the muzzle with two nostrils pushed in — rather than a tapered point. Pigs have a bone in the end of the nose that nothing else has, which is what gives a real snout its flat, blunt, tool-like end. Taper it like a dog's muzzle and the animal stops being a pig.
Product Care

Pure New Zealand pasture wool naturally repels dust and light spills thanks to its dense, organic fiber structure.

Day-to-dayair him rather than wash him. Wool sheds dust and odour on its own given a few hours somewhere with moving air.

The wingsthey are worked flat and swept back, so they are the part that catches on a branch. Lift them clear rather than pushing him past.

The tailthe corkscrew will relax if pulled straight. Wind it back around a fingertip and it holds.

The anglehe is meant to hang nose-down. If he levels out, the cord has shifted at the attachment point; ease it back between the wings.

Hanging himuse the jute cord, not a wing or the tail.

Spot cleaningblot with a barely damp cloth and dry hanging. Never submerge — hot magenta against undyed cream wings is exactly the pairing that runs, and pink wings cannot be undone.

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